About: WTYN (AM)

WTYN was a small AM radio station covering Tryon, North Carolina. WTYN was founded by Graves and Gertrude Taylor and Fanning Hearon, all of Tryon and Spartanburg, South Carolina. The station first went on the air in 1954, on 1550 kHz, broadcasting to the Tryon, Columbus, Landrum (SC) area. For the first 30 years Ace Rickenbacker was a well known fixture along with Fanning Hearon, and later on, Bill Dobbin. During the 1950s and early 1960s high school guys, among them Fred Taylor, Charlie Fishburne, Mike McGuinn, "Chip" Leonard and Johnny Lineberger livened things up on the weekends and provided broadcasts of church services and little league baseball games. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Les Hunt, Mike Leonard and Charlie Whitmire assisted on the air. WTYN mostly played variety, news, e